Activists who are resisting a gold mine in Piedras, Colombia, reached out to the communities of Balcombe in Sussex, to show solidarity and support for their parallel efforts. Here we share their moving letter, which unites those struggling against the impact of mining...
Danu village shares the same sea area as the famous shark callers of Messe village next door. Danu, which means “water that never runs dry” in the local language, will have its people evicted by the London-listed Canadian ocean floor exploration company Nautilus...
While only few were paying attention to the price of aluminum, some important industry players such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Glencore Xstrata, were allegedly inflating prices and disrupting supplies for the commodity. See...
Newly-formed mining giant Glencore Xstrata has written down the value of Xstrata’s assets by $7.7bn (£4.9bn), and reported a drop in revenues. The firm, which was created in May, said the write-down reflected tougher conditions in the mining sector. Revenues in...
On 4 August, a Colombian paramilitary organization issued death threats against anyone standing in the way of London-listed mining companies AngloGold Ashanti, Glencore Xstrata and other named and unnamed extractives companies. On 17 August, London Mining Network...
Old King Coal has benefited from a run of good luck these past few years. First came the fabulous boom years of the first decade of this century. The Copenhagen climate talks loomed like a black cloud over the sector for a while, but dissipated without so much as a...
